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Moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, National Geographic presents the suspenseful final round of the annual competition which pits young geography braniacs in a head-to-head match for winning scholarships up to $25,000.

National Geographic presents the ever-anticipated finale to the 2009 National Geographic Bee, moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. Eric Yang, of Griffin Middle School in The Colony, Texas, triumphed at the annual competition during a tie-breaker round with this question: "Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country?" The answer, Romania, came with a U.S. $25,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society, and a trip to the Galapagos Islands with Jeopardy! host and Bee moderator Alex Trebek. Yang competed against 54 fourth- through eighth-grade contestants whittled down from nearly 5 million students from around the country.

Now in its 24th year, 54 students (ages 10-14) vie for the national title and three scholarships worth a total of $50,000. With the well-prepped contestants acing geography questions over and over, it was a challenge to narrow the field in the finals, resulting in one of the longest National Geographic Bees to date.

For the 25th year, the nation’s smartest geography brainiacs descend on Washington, D.C., for the finals of the 2013 National Geographic Bee. Narrowed down from more than 4 million students from across the country, only 10 earn a coveted spot on stage at the final round hosted by Alex Trebek.

National Geographic reconstructs the attack on the nation's capital moment by moment entirely through home video; fire, rescue, and police footage; and news coverage. Footage from the Pentagon crash site taken shortly after impact captures a raw view of the devastating aftermath. Cameras throughout the city document the chaotic evacuation from the Capitol and White House as air traffic controllers grapple with the potential of another hijacked plane targeting the White House.